On Saturday 25 August 2007 11:33:46 Xavier wrote:
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 02:08:47AM +0200, rprinse@planet.nl wrote:
As I was browsing through the task list I stumbled upon FS#7308. This was a feature I also would like to have implemented so I thought why not try it myself!
Because I'm lazy sometimes (who isn't) I don't always take care of any .pacnew or .pacsave files immediately so a nice timestamp suffix would prevent them from getting overwritten by pacman. Especially when you would like to see what changed overtime or when you just don't want that your old saved settings might get overwritten.
If pacnew files are overwritten, then it's good, isn't it ? That way, you just have the last one.
And for pacsave files, pacman should only save configs as .pacsave when they have been modified, so it'll just keep the most recent one. Ahh I wasn't aware of that, I'm sorry, you're right.
I think the way it works currently is much better, but well, if it's an option and others find it useful, then why not.
Sure offcourse, I guess I saw it as a nice oppurtunity to get to know the pacman source code and do something back. Maybe if other people want this as well I could implement it, it is not that hard.
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Thanks for your reply anyway, --DeliQ